Author: Amelia Hagelin

Huffington Post – London Fashion Week: Here’s What You Need To Know

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From Victoria Beckham coming home to the must-have Brexit T-shirt.

14 September 2018

When your Instagram explore page starts filling up with beautiful people getting out of black cabs with serious attitude, it’s probably London Fashion Week.

Yet this bi-annual event is still a mystery to the majority of us. What happens at fashion week, why is it here (again) and, crucially, who’s going to be there?

Fashion weeks are a chance for designers to showcase their collections before they hit the stores next season. Held all over the world, they’re primarily industry events, so the main people who attend are fashion editors, retail buyers, designers, of course – and the models and celebs who wear their clothes.

But with Brexit impacting the homegrown fashion industry, a range of emerging designers taking centre stage and some big-name international creatives returning to their roots in London, this season is worth watching. Here’s what you need to know.

Read more here https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/london-fashion-week-what-you-need-to-know_uk_5b9b998ee4b04d32ebf7779b?guccounter=1

WWD: London Designers Say It With T-shirts

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Riccardo Tisci, Victoria Beckham and Katharine Hamnett are all saying it with a unisex cotton T-shirt.

13 September 2018

Katharine Hamnett, the doyenne of T-shirt messaging, is also in the mix this season with a T-shirt that costs 25 pounds and says Fashion Hates Brexit. Hamnett’s been at the T-shirt game for years, famously flashing a black-and-white “58 Percent Don’t Want Pershing” slogan T-shirt when meeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Downing Street in 1984.

The statement referred to a poll that showed most Britons objected to having Pershing missiles based in the country, and Hamnett recalled earlier this year how Thatcher reacted with a loud shriek when she saw it. It’s doubtful whether Prime Minister Theresa May will have the same reaction when she sees this one, as she’s got anti-Brexiteers in her face every day.

“I have always hated Brexit from the word go,” said Hamnett, when asked why she created the shirt this season. “We can’t possibly get a better deal with Europe than we have now, and Europe’s human rights and environmental laws are better than the U.K.’s. Fashion is an interconnected business with people and components coming from all over the planet.”

Read more here https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/london-designers-t-shirts-burberry-victoria-beckham-1202810313/\l

i-D Magazine: How to Save the World with Katharine Hamnett

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10 September 2018


Iconic fashion designer Katharine Hamnett has spent her career fighting to make the world a better place. From making fashion sustainable to cancelling Brexit, here’s her manifesto for change in 2018…

Fashion gave me a voice in the 80s, or rather I grabbed it, and I’ve used and abused it ever since. I started my career making slogan tees in an attempt to highlight key issues affecting the world. I wanted to make people stop and think and hopefully do the right thing. For this issue of i-D, I’ve highlighted four make or break areas we need to address now and asked key people operating within those areas for their advice on how we achieve a sustainable future…

Read the full feature here https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/ev8qzz/how-to-save-the-world-with-katharine-hamnett